Chapter 1 – The Night Everything ChangedAt seventeen, I chose my paralyzed high school boyfriend over my own wealthy parents, and got myself disowned for it. Fifteen years later, my entire past walked straight into my kitchen and tore our “against all odds” love story completely apart.

“How could you do this to her?” she screamed. “How could you possibly lie to my own daughter for fifteen straight years?”

“Mom?” I said.

She whipped around fast. For one brief second, something resembling genuine pain crossed her face. Then the anger snapped straight back into place. “Sit down,” she said. “You genuinely need to know exactly who he really is.”